Letters to the Mayor: Athens

Dear Mayor,... / Architects, thinkers and artists send a letter to the mayor of Athens

metamatic:taf in collaboration with Storefront for Art and Architecture New York presents the project Letters to the Mayor: Athens which will be hosted at the metamatic:taf gallery space from 25 February until 6 March 2016.

Letters to the Mayor constitutes an itinerant exhibition in the form of letters written by architects to the mayors of the cities where they live or work. It started in New York City in 2014 with a collection of letters from a series of international architects writing to their respective mayors, bringing innovative ideas and visions of the city closer to the decision-makers.

Having travelled to more than 20 cities around the world, the project Letters to the Mayor will be implemented for the first time in Athens. In this exhibition, architects, academics, writers and visual artists are invited to develop their thoughts about the city, opening simultaneously a broader dialogue on the contemporary urban condition. The letters presented in the exhibition will be delivered to the Mayor of Athens, who has been invited to an open discourse with the writers and the public as part of the exhibition.